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... a model of judiciousness and integrative analysis... " —Research in African Literatures

Poet and anthropologist Michael Jackson brings to this study of the folktales of the Kuranko people of Sierra Leone a sensitivity to the philosophical nuances of literature.

Author Bio

Michael D. Jackson is Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many books include Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology; Between One and One Another; Road Markings: An Anthropologist in the Antipodes; and Things As They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology (IUP, 1996).

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Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction2. Form and Play in Kuranko Fiction3. During a Time of Great Hunger4. Hare and Hyena5. Prevented Transitions6. Reciprocities7. Men and Women8. Co-Wives, Orphans, and Miraculous Interventions9. Directions

AppendixNotesGlossary of Kuranko WordsReferencesList of NarrativesIndex